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Synthesis of Condensed Tannins. Part 1. Stereoselective and Stereospecific Syntheses of Optically Pure 4-Arylflavan-3-ols, and Assessment of their Absolute Stereochemistry at C-4 by means of Circular Dichroism
Botha, Jacobus J.,Young, Desmond A.,Ferreira, Daneel,Roux, David G.
, p. 1213 - 1219 (2007/10/02)
Stereoselective and also stereospecific condensation at C-4 of flavan-3,4-diols of known absolute configuration with phloroglucinol and resorcinol in acid medium proceeds at ambient temperatures with partial retention of configuration for 2,3-trans-isomers and with inversion for 2,3-cis-analogues.Circular dichroism spectra of the resultant 4-arylflavan-3-ols all exhibit multiple Cotton effects.The sign of high intensity Cotton effects to low wavelength, contributed by aryl chromophores at C-4, may almost invariably be correlated with the absolute configuration at this chiral centre of 2,3-trans-3,4-trans, 2,3-trans-3,4-cis, and 2,3-cis-3,4-trans-isomers.
Synthesis of Condensed Tannins. Part 2. Synthesis by Photolytic Rearrangement, Stereochemistry, and Circular Dichroism of the First 2,3-cis,3,4-cis-4-Arylflavan-3-ols
Westhuizen, Jan H. van der,Ferreira, Daneel,Roux, David G.
, p. 1220 - 1226 (2007/10/02)
Photolytic rearrangements of those 2,3-trans-3,4-trans- and 2,3-trans-3,4-cis-4-arylflavan-3-ols in which the nucleophilicity of D-ring (4-aryl group) functionality exceeds that of the A-ring, provide the first access to 2,3-cis-3,4-cis-diastereoisomers.The circular dichroism of these new isomers is at variance with the proposed general rule for assessing the absolute configuration at C-4.In terms of the aromatic quadrant rule such discrepancies correlate with deviations from the preferred C-ring conformations.
